JOHANNES LINSTEAD
Cafe Tropical
(c) (p) 2006 Earthscape Media. Under exclusive license to Gemini Sun Records
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A new album of a guitar virtuoso Johannes Linstead carries us into warm tropical nights that are imbued with inexpressible heady scents and bright summer days which are burned with the scorching sun. This music is full of passion of a heart that is longing for love and a fondness of a romantic who has arrived to the coast of a shoreless ocean attracting with its azure waves. Unimaginable colorful sunsets and magical dawns enriched with singing of mysterious birds, all in this music is merged in one seething caudron. Here is the life where there are no edges and borders. It disregards the conventionalities and ceremonial courtesy. This music contains voices of friends inviting to a night feast and love-groans that are hardly distinguishable in sounds of idly splashing night waves. All the life in its authenticity that does not trouble about a tomorrow’ s day and does not glance back at a yesterday’ s one. The life that frighten the mind but overfill the heart with love. And all this is a new, the sixth already album of a brilliant guitarist Johannes Linstead which is called "Cafe Tropical" and released at the Gemini Sun Records.

The musician is assisted by the team of exclusive performers. The sounding of the album is rich and expressive. All this makes the "Cafe Tropical" album very attractive.

But even not all aforesaid attracts me most of all in Johannes Linstead's music. The main thing lies in the fact that the musician does always exist in the present moment. Here he is right now and is playing before you. He does not try to recollect some memorized tunes but celebrates the life in all its multiformity. And this enriches the music only with its inherent, special aroma like a good aged wine. Once and again you want to plunge into waves of sincere feelings which are being splashed out on you by Johannes Linstead's unique guitar.

The "Cafe Tropical" album will be a precious pearl in any music-lover’ s collection. This is the music which embellishes a day with new colors and you realize afresh that the life is beautiful.

When you are blue and sick at heart
Then celebrate the life
And you will see the vanity of all
Except the life
That’ s of great value on this Earth.

Serge Kozlovsky
http://sergekozlovsky.com

P.S. Translated by Tatyana L. Permyakova.